The main allegations arise from a speech by Judge Jones at a Federalist Society event at University of Pennsylvania in February on the death penalty. Jones is alleged to have made points such as these:

*The United States system of justice provides a positive service to capital-case
defendants by imposing a death sentence, because the defendants are likely to make
peace with God only in the moment before imminent execution;

*Certain “racial groups like African Americans and Hispanics are predisposed to crime,”
are “‘prone’ to commit acts of violence,” and get involved in more violent and “heinous”
crimes than people of other ethnicities;

*Claims of racism, innocence, arbitrariness, and international standards are simply “red
herrings” used by opponents of capital punishment;